Mechanics Overalls and Gloves

by TimmyK, 26-08-2018, 08:03 AM

Fed up ruining my trackies working on the imp. where is the best place to get overalls and gloves? Demon Tweeks want £40 for OMP overalls seems bit on the expensive side

Insurance - what a joke!!!!!!!!!!

by Carpediem, 26-08-2018, 06:48 AM

Got to renew on the 28th, so rang aviva to get my qoute as not had a letter yet,..............

£1,333!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

to make it even worse i get a new qoute online with them and its on £878???????????????? but they wont price match???????????????

flipping ridiculous

hastings pier

by Chri5, 24-08-2018, 04:32 PM

ok so its been set on fire which is bad news
but i have just been having a look at it and i cant believe it was designed by a schoolboy

You've got to be kidding.......

by parthiban, 24-08-2018, 12:21 PM

Driving to work this morning, got stuck in some pretty heavy traffic on the A406 but you'll never guess what was causing it........it was three separate cars that had broken down and somehow left on the right lane of the carriageway all within the space of about 5 miles!

Now if you pull up at a set of lights and the car breaks down, I sort of understand you're stuck there, but on a dual carriageway doing 50mph - engine dies, simply coast on and pull up somewhere, preferably on the left!

What made it worse was that the second car had one of those big yellow trucks with the flashing lights behind it telling you to move left (like when there are roadworks) - so instead of bringing a tow truck or something to pull the car clear, someone decided it was a good idea to park that truck there! Totally insane!

By the time I got to the third car I was wondering if this was some kind of joke as I couldn't believe it.............

Hello

by Shane, 24-08-2018, 08:26 AM

Hi,

Just signed up after seeing your stand/meet at both JAE and Pod this weekend, also mplavery said nice things about you all!

My name is Shane, live in Northants and look forward to meeting you at some of the meets and being part of this forum. I have 2 Supras at the moment, an NA which I am about to sell and a TT bpu that I have been working on since buying it as a write off in April. Here's a picture of the TT.

My MR2 3.0 V6

by Steve@EdgeAutomotive, 23-08-2018, 05:41 PM

I thought i'd give you guys a little history on my car, how i got it and how its changed.

Back in July of 2008 I was visiting a friend in Lincoln. I've always fancied an MR2 and i got talking to the girlfriend. I was telling her how much i liked them, and how I'd love to own one and she said 'why not get one?' So as we started the trip home i had a think and i said, 'If we see 3 MR2's on the way home, I'll get one'

Now i hardly seen any MR2's on the road, let alone 3! As we were traveling down the A46 towards leicester we spotted the first MR2. Me and the Mrs looked at each other and said.. '2 more' Further down the A46 another MR2 approached us. At this point i got excited, hoping to see 1 more.

Quite alot of the journey passed and we were nearly home. I started thinking we weren't going to see another one. But as I pulled onto the A426 towards rugby a yellow MR2 whizzed passed us. Call it a coincidence, call it fate either way, I was over the moon.

That night i was on eBay looking for a white 2.0 NA MR2, preferably a Rev 3. And i found one, A 1995 White MR2 2.0 NA with 58K on the clock. The next day i rang up to view the car and off we went. I must have spent an hour there just looking at it.

Within the next 24 hours, My old car was sold and the MR2 was MINE!

This is how she was when i got her..

Alloy Wheel Refurb

by dodgydave, 23-08-2018, 05:20 PM

Hi all,

Just thought I post up some details on my first experience of refurbing alloy wheels.

I had been looking out for a set of alloys for my daughter Sarah's Yaris T-Sport as hers were just about knackered.

I eventually found some for sale on ebay but there was only three. Anyhow I bought the three with the view that I would keep my eyes open for another one. Well we had the three that I bought swapped over a few weeks ago now and I decided I would have a go at refurbishing the best one of her old ones, it can't be that difficult, can it?


I did this over a period of about 2 weeks just doing a bit at a time in the evenings. Like rubbing down and spraying a couple of coats of paint as then it gave the paint a full 24 hours to harden.







So here's a couple of picks of the old one as it came off her car......








as you can see it was in a bit of a state.

First I took as much old paint and corrosion off with a flap wheel in a drill.....




Like this .......



Then using some course (120grit) wet and dry paper I rubbed and rubbed and rubbed .....

and then with 450grit wet and dry and I rubbed and rubbed and rubbed until it was looking like this.....










I also smoothed the rim where it had been curbed using a fine file and then wet and dry.



Finally it was time to put some paint on. I masked up the parts of the wheel I didn't want to get paint on and applied a couple of coats of a filler primer, this will fill any small imperfections and scratches...









Then, after a rub down with some well wetted 450grit again and as I had some white primer laying around in my garage I applied a couple of coats......





This is white although it looks grey in the photo, I think that's down to the lighting.


My next problem was what colour top coat I needed. I searched and searched on the internet and found that most people seem to use a standard body colour silver from what ever the make of car is. So after visiting my local Halfords and having a look at what silvers were available for Toyota I found that they only did 2 variations, a Lucerne Silver and Silver No2 and the Lucerne Silver was listed as being suitable for loads of different Toyotas over a period of many years. So I went for that one, which was a mistake, see later.











So having picked my top coat colour I then saw the label on the top of the tin.....



****** now I needed to re-spray in grey primer so after buying some grey primer it was down to spraying another couple of coats.....






Right now it was down to top coat. After more rubbing down with 450grit and lots of water and thoroughly drying I sprayed the silver on .........








Looking good so far, except the colour didn't look quite right, a bit too dark. Well maybe it will lighten up a bit when I spray the lacquer on...

So a final rub down with 1500grit wet and dry and lots of water I sprayed 2 coats of clear lacquer.....









Now I can see that even after spaying with clear lacquer the silver is still too dark. See here along side one of the old wheels....






So what to do now. Back to the drawing board I think.

I will just have to rub it all down again and then spray with the correct colour. :crying:

Anyone know what colour I should use? I've searched and searched and I can't find the details anywhere.


Dave

TV advert

by Phil01, 23-08-2018, 03:46 PM

Just seen the first Christmas TV advert for kids toys.
Isn't it a bit too early??

my turn now

by garyskisplym, 23-08-2018, 03:09 PM

It was my turn this week to hit my car.

Was parking and just swang in to much and hit the car in front.

All the damage of my car is polished out and hoping the other guy dont go throw the insurence but think he will cos hes an ass and never liked me.

He is my old head teacher from when i was at school, I no good person car to hit.






If he goes throw insurence you will see this car up for sale very soon

Gaz

mini wanted

by widnes_is200, 23-08-2018, 02:25 PM

hi guys and galls, im after a mini to do as a project in my garage over the next year or so, if anybody has one or knows of one , scrap or not for sale then please let me know, mant thanks !